Cochlospermaceae
Cochlospermum Family
The Cochlospermaceae family (Cochlospermum Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Malvales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a tree. Several members are valued in traditional medicine.
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Large, palmately lobed leaves on trees, often leafless at flowering time; big, bright yellow, crinkled-petalled flowers with numerous stamens ripen into a capsule packed with seeds embedded in cotton-like floss.
Seeds are wrapped in a silky floss similar to kapok's, and the tree often blooms in a spectacular leafless flush that lights up the dry-season canopy in bright yellow.
To check whether a plant belongs to Cochlospermaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
Learn the full family-identification methodNotable members
Families that can look similar
Malvaceae
Compare against Malvaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare MalvaceaeSterculiaceae
Compare against Sterculiaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare SterculiaceaeTiliaceae
Compare against Tiliaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare TiliaceaeDipterocarpaceae
Compare against Dipterocarpaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare DipterocarpaceaeAll 1 species in COCHLOSPERMACEAE
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